In times of resurgent military confrontations between antagonistic power blocs, history has once again turned into a fiercely contested socio-political “resource” (Christophe, Kohl and Liebau 2021) over which relentless battles are fought in the realm of memory politics by competing state and non-state actors. Given their key role in the reproduction of historical narratives and their transmission to future generations, young people are of particular interest to the memory regimes of nation-states and non-state actors alike, which seek to win them over for their proposed historical narratives. In return, young people turn to history in an effort to forge their socio-political personality and make sense of the world and their own place in it.